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Directly opposite, over the brilliant corridor, her gaze fell upon the glass and yellow-wood of a long-distance telephone booth. Then she caught sight of Hugo, and smiled at him, and at the same moment mamma's voice said at her elbow: "There's Hugo, waiting.... Are you ready?" "And waiting, too," said Carlisle. They emerged from the ladies' bower into the stir of the antechamber.
It was so all the evening. Mamma's cousin was entertaining and bright, and told lively stories; but the children felt that she was watching them, and passing judgment on their ways. Children are very quick to suspect when older people hold within themselves these little private courts of inquiry, and they always resent it. Next morning Mrs. "My dear," she said at last, "what a solemn girl you are!
"I like to sleep in the morning better than you do, anyway. Did you dive for mamma's money-bag?" "You needn't laugh at me," said Cricket, emerging, half-dressed already. "I mean to find it. You'll see." But she inwardly registered a vow that she would pursue her search alone.
'How could you be so foolish as to put it on, when you were only going for a country walk? said Dora Maitland. 'I can't think why you should wear your mamma's brooch at all, remarked Annie, 'unless she gave you leave.
"It came all wrapped up in tissue paper, with mamma's gray silk, and it's got flowers on it a lot of them!" with which parting shot, she turned her back upon the startled old lady and dashed off to join the boys and Big Abel, who, with their fishing-poles, had gathered in the cattle pasture.
'Did we really go inside Uncle Marmy's gates, and see? 'Of course we did, said Frances, 'and I've got such a good thought. Don't you think we might go that way again to-day and take mamma's last photograph with us? Lady Myrtle would be sure to like to see it, and we needn't ask for her, you know.
"Fraidy, scared of a little blood." Then with not a great deal of relevance, "I could have the yellowest hair in the world if I wanted to." "How?" "Oh, by just wanting to." "Nit." "Could." "Your mamma's calling you." "Lil-ly, come practice." "I'm coming." To Harry, "I can do something you can't do." "What?" "Hop up six stairs on one foot." "Dare you."
I should have six in every drawer, one in each pocket, half a dozen in Mamma's basket, a row on the mantelpiece on all the mantelpieces. Then perhaps I could do without a maid; at least, save her up till I grow older. Let's see. That makes three wishes. They generally have three. If I strike out the maid, I can think of something else. Suppose I say something to eat, then. Chocolate creams!
Selfish husbands have this advantage in maintaining with easy-minded wives a rigid and inflexible behaviour, viz. that if they DO by any chance grant a little favour, the ladies receive it with such transports of gratitude as they would never think of showing to a lord and master who was accustomed to give them everything they asked for; and hence, when Captain Walker signified his assent to his wife's prayer that she should take a singing-master, she thought his generosity almost divine, and fell upon her mamma's neck, when that lady came the next day, and said what a dear adorable angel her Howard was, and what ought she not to do for a man who had taken her from her humble situation, and raised her to be what she was!
"If you are in an intelligible condition, I've thirty-five roubles to remit to you, as Semyon Semyonovitch has received from Afanasy Ivanovitch at your mamma's request instructions to that effect, as on previous occasions. Do you know him, sir?" "Yes, I remember... Vahrushin," Raskolnikov said dreamily. "You hear, he knows Vahrushin," cried Razumihin.
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